<p>deter1: Your credibility on this issue is minimal, since your post history contains:</p>
<p>1) You posting rankings that show Princeton at #1 and constantly (and excessively) praising Princeton (and I say this as a very happy student at Princeton).
2) You disparaging any rankings that show Princeton anywhere than number 1.</p>
<p>Do you even attend the school?</p>
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<p>Yes, it’s a great military education. But that does not a prestigious school make, necessarily.</p>
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<p>A “scholastic curriculum that rivals any ivy league school”? Please. The students at the academies undergo an extremely rigorous form of military schooling, and it is very difficult to survive without extreme discipline, but to say that the scholastic program rivals that at any Ivy is pure hyperbole. The academic quality difference between Ivy league schools and the academies, both in quality of teaching and quality of student, is significant.</p>
<p>Acceptance rates, by the way, may or may not reflect academic difficulty. For example, Caltech has acceptance rates routinely twice as high as the Ivies, despite being a muc more academically rigorous school.</p>
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<p>No, they don’t. Prestige is a measure of how successful and influential a school is; it’s a measure that more or less is in the eye of the beholder - and thus, in my opinion, is best measured through polling. And I would put a very large amount of money on the fact that if you polled widely, the academies wouldn’t even make the top 10 on the list. Sorry - I’m sure you like the academies a lot (and rightly so, they are impressive schools), but that does not require hyperbole.</p>